Sentences with phrase «near the ocean surface»

The torpedo - shaped device, connected by a cord to a barb buried deep in the shark's skin, transmitted signals to passing satellites whenever it was near the ocean surface.

«Building on this, the present, novel results show biological effects near the ocean surface in areas where seeps are most prolific.»

This enzyme was found in a microbe called Nitrosopumilus maritimus, which lives near the ocean surface, but the enzyme was not readily identified in other ocean microbes as one would have expected it to be.

ATom will gather measurements of more than 200 different gases, as well as aerosols from the air near the ocean surface to approximately seven miles altitude.

However, the data also showed that significant amounts of carbon dioxide were being absorbed by the waters near the ocean surface.

When heat stays nearer the ocean surface, forcing raises surface temperature faster than when more of the heat is distributed at lower depths.

The ocean waters of the deep circumpolar current that swirl around the continent have been getting measurably warmer and nearer the ocean surface over the last 40 years, [continue reading...]

When there is excess CO2 in the atmosphere, water near the ocean surface becomes acidic too quickly for this normal process to take place.

Not exact matches

The shrimp represent centimeter - sized swimmers, including krill and shrimplike copepods, found throughout the world's oceans that may together be capable of mixing ocean layers — and delivering nutrient - rich deep waters to phytoplankton, or microscopic marine plants, near the surface, the researchers suggest.

He also said that their feeding pattern is distinct because the area where they've settled has a limited supply of food available on the ocean floor, and an abundance near the surface.

But research published yesterday in the journal Nature rebuts this idea, suggesting that it was changes in ocean circulation, not winds, that predominantly led the deep water to surface near Antarctica and exhale carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Seen from below, its belly glows with blue light, making it difficult to distinguish against the backdrop of sunlight coming from the ocean's surface — except for a small dark band near its mouth.

The great frigatebirds can fly for weeks without a break, mostly cruising over the ocean looking for food near the surface.

Located 60 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean near Key Largo, it lets spacewalkers work with support crews and a mission control.

The ocean contains the largest active pool of carbon near the surface of the Earth, but the deep ocean part of this pool does not rapidly exchange with the atmosphere.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Sciencsurface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Ocean Surface Topography SciencSurface Topography Science Team.

Today, cold water sinks near the Arctic and flows deep below the surface of the Atlantic toward the southern oceans, where it rises up.

So, for example, a big part of what drives a hurricane is the fact that you've got a lot of warm water near the surface of the ocean that is transferring heat into the air, and that's what's moving up, and that is a big part of then what's propelling the entire bigger storm system.

The oxygen content of the ocean may be subject to frequent ups and downs in a very literal sense — that is, in the form of the numerous sea creatures that dine near the surface at night then submerge into the safety of deeper, darker waters at daybreak.

Co-author of the study Dr Wim Degruyter, from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Our current understanding tells us that hot magma can be injected from Earth's lower crust into colder surroundings near the surface.

The wind keeps a layer of warm water near the surface in Indonesia, reducing the temperature difference across the Indian Ocean and so minimising the strength of positive IOD events.

Representation of the temperatures on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean near the north - american coast.

This means nutrients are near the surface for a shorter time before returning to the deep ocean floor.

Water takes a lot of energy to heat, and our oceans are very deep, so sunlight only raises the temperature near the surface.

Because the upwelled waters ran along the surface for a longer period of time, nutrients spent more time near the surface of the ocean where phytoplankton could feed on them for longer.

The ocean surface is typically near freezing because it's constantly exposed to subzero air temperatures.

Siegel says that ocean color, which indicates the presence of ocean life near the surface, was once thought to be too subtle a phenomenon to measure with the flawed sensor.

Eventually, it makes its way back to the surface as the ocean's bottom water circulates and rises anew near the equator (although carbon buried in sediment might stay buried longer).

These classes of molecules are commonly found near the ocean's surface, and they are ubiquitous in biology.

They are therefore probably better adapted to ocean acidification than other fish species such as the cod that spawns near the surface,» Clemmesen said.

The finding, in combination with evidence from previous studies, suggests that these molten regions deep below, near the core - mantle boundary of the Earth, may cause basaltic ocean island chains to form along the surface.

The tracking revealed «a climate system still in transition in 2017,» as surface ocean conditions return to near normal.

A low - altitude flow of warm, moist air from an ocean area combined with a flow of cold, dry polar air high up creates maximum instability, which means that parcels of air heated near the surface rise rapidly, creating powerful updrafts.

They also looked at recent ocean conditions, in particular the temperature of the sea surface near Japan and Florida the winter before a given breeding season.

The marine bacterium Prochlorococcus may seed the oceans with nutrients via small vesicles (seen near the cell surface).

Roth asks, «Do the vents extend down to a subsurface ocean or are the ejecta simply from warmed ice caused by friction stresses near the surface?»

Most marine fishes have a pelagic larval stage that drifts in the surface or near - surface currents of the ocean — an environment very different from the one they inhabit as adults.

Some of this naturally released methane comes from the ocean, a phenomenon that has long puzzled scientists because there are no known methane - producing organisms living near the ocean's surface.

Many bacteria produce methane as a byproduct of their metabolism, but most of these bacteria live in oxygen - poor environments such as the deep ocean or the digestive tract of animals — not near the ocean's surface.

The higher sea level near the western ocean boundary creates a west - east pressure difference in the ocean, that results in the equatorial undercurrent flowing from west to east below the surface.

The seawater at or near the ocean's surface in the tropics is supersaturated with the ions necessary to form these carbonate minerals.

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bOcean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean bocean basin.

Remote sensing of the ocean and the near - surface atmosphere.

The decrease over the last 20 years is well substantiated by observation and is indistinguishable from the calculated decline assuming that the surface ocean is in near thermodynamic equilibrium with increasing CO2 concentration of the atmosphere.

However, comparison of the global, annual mean time series of near - surface temperature (approximately 0 to 5 m depth) from this analysis and the corresponding SST series based on a subset of the International Comprehensive Ocean - Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) database (approximately 134 million SST observations; Smith and Reynolds, 2003 and additional data) shows a high correlation (r = 0.96) for the period 1955 to 2005.

The carbon in the atmosphere, ocean, on the surface, life, and other shallow, near surface reservoirs accounts for only about 10 % of Earth's carbon.

Hydrothermal vents are located several miles below the surface, on the ocean floor, where the surrounding water is at or near freezing, it is absolutely dark and the pressure is high.

But effective residence time is much longer because of the equlibrium (or near equlibrium) between surface ocean and atmosphere and biosphere and atmosphere.

Near subduction zones, plates collide, forcing ocean crust down toward Earth's hot interior, where this crustal material melts, forming magma that rises buoyantly back to the surface and erupts to create volcanoes and seamounts.

If Cassini is allowed to float near Saturn and accidentally crashes onto Enceladus, the spacecraft's heat could melt the surface ice and fall into the depths of Enceladus» underground oceans, scientists have said.